sorbet

Etymology

French sorbet, from Middle French [Term?], from Old Italian sorbetto, from Ottoman Turkish شربت‎ (şerbet), from Persian شربت‎ (šarbat), from Arabic شَرْبَة‎ (šarba, “drink”).

Cognate to sherbet, sharbat, related to syrup.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, General American) IPA^(key): /sɔɹˈbeɪ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔɹbeɪ/

Noun

sorbet (countable and uncountable, plural sorbets)

1. Frozen fruit juice, sometimes mixed with egg whites, used as dessert or between courses of a meal.

   After dinner we had an orange sorbet that was very refreshing.

Anagrams

• Boster, Stober, Tobers, besort, borest, strobe, tobers

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔʁ.bɛ/

Noun

sorbet m (plural sorbets)

1. sorbet, sherbet

Further reading

• “sorbet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Verb

sorbet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of sorbeō

Noun

sorbet m (uncountable)

1. sorbet (frozen fruit juice)